Enjoy your summer, and check back in at the end of August for information on what’s new with human rights collections at UConn! In the mean time, please feel free to check out the Dodd Center’s blog, Fresh Pickin’s, which will be going strong all summer long.
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Remembering Kent State, May 4, 1970
I wrote a post for the Dodd Research Center’s main blog, Fresh Pickin’s, today for the 40th Anniversary of the Kent State Massacre.
Voices of Rwanda Presentation with Taylor Krauss on April 20
Please join us on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 4 PM in Konover Auditorium for a special presentation by Taylor Krauss, Founder of Voices of Rwanda.
Voices of Rwanda:
A Conversation and Film Screening with Taylor Krauss
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
4:00 PM, Konover Auditorium
Sixteen years ago, in April 1994, genocide broke out in Rwanda. Over the course of 100 days, an estimated 800,000 people were brutally killed by their neighbors. Today, survivors, bystanders, rescuers, and perpetrators are all searching for ways to live with one another and with their difficult past.
Taylor Krauss, founding director of Voices of Rwanda, will be presenting clips from his filmed testimony from survivors of the Rwandan genocide. Krauss founded Voices of Rwanda in 2006 to record and preserve testimonies of Rwandans to ensure that their stories inform the world about genocide and help prevent future human rights atrocities. Voices of Rwanda currently has a large film archive of testimony and is working with organizations and schools in Rwanda and the United States to make the testimonies available for education and research, as well as community healing.
To find out more information on Voices of Rwanda please visit:
http://www.voicesofrwanda.org/
Download the poster for the event (PDF, 1 MB)
Listen to a podcast with Taylor Krauss from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Voices on Genocide Prevention Podcast from December 17, 2009.
Archives & Special Collections Open House, April 14 at 4 PM
Please join us for an Open House at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. The event will include interactive displays, presentations and one-on-one conversations to facilitate the discovery of the rich resources in the Archives that will help with your classes and your own personal research.
Wednesday, April 14
4:00-6:00pm
Dodd Research Center
You are welcome to come and go as your schedule allows, but if you have a particular interest in the presentations, the schedule is as follows:
4:15-Welcome
4:30-Exploring the collections with our new search feature
4:45-New tools for using our digital resources
5:00-The distinctive sounds of the Victrola
Refreshments will be provided.
Think Tank Working Papers
In addition to using the library’s subscription databases such as CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online), to find white papers and publications from think tanks and NGOs, there are a number of good websites to look at as well:
Here are a few examples:
FRIDE is a think tank based in Madrid that aims to provide the best and most innovative thinking on Europe’s role in the international arena. It strives to break new ground in its core research interests of peace and security, human rights, democracy promotion, and development and humanitarian aid, and mould debate in governmental and non-governmental bodies through rigorous analysis, rooted in the values of justice, equality and democracy.
International Development Research Center
IDRC is a Canadian Crown corporation that works in close collaboration with researchers from the developing world in their search for the means to build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies.
Harvard Kennedy School of Government Faculty Working Paper Series
Faculty working paper topics include human rights, advocacy, economics, international relations/globalization, security, conflict management, legal issues, and welfare, health care and social policy.
New Films in the Human Rights Film Collection
The Human Rights Film Collection at Babbidge Library has over 470 films in it. Here are a few of the most recent additions to the collection:
12.511, Caso Rosendo Radilla: Herida Abierta de la Guerra Social en México. Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos (CMDPDH): WITNESS, c2008. [English Subtitles] Call number: HV6322.3 .C37 2008
“In 1974, Rosendo Radilla Pacheco disappeared at a military checkpoint in southern Mexico. As a prominent activist and mayor, Rosendo fought for access to health and education in Atoyac, in the state of Guerrero–a region historically plagued by hardship and neglected by authorities.Decades later, Radilla’s unresolved case reached the Inter-American Court of Human Rights as a emblematic example of government activities during the Dirty War–a period when the autoritarian regimes of the 1960s and 1970’s employed miltary tactics to crush opposition movements. Now Mexico faces charges of crimes against humanity. The video tells the stories of Radilla’s daughter, Tita, and other families who have disappeared relatives. They show us how seeking the truth in the past strengthens justice in the future.”
Between Two Fires: Torture and Displacement in Northern Uganda. WITNESS and Human Rights Focus, 2006. Call number: JC599.U36 B48 2006
Human Rights in Burma. Burma Issues and Witness, 2007. Call number: JC599.B93 H863 2007
Rights on the line : vigilantes on the border / produced by American Friends Service Committee, ACLU, Witness ; writers and producers, Tamaryn Nelson, Ray Ybarra. Call number: JV6483 .R54 2005 disc.1-2
Bought & sold. a Witness production in association with the Global Survival Network ; produced and directed by Gillian Caldwell. Call number: HQ281 .B68 1997
Rise: revolutionary women re-envisioning Afghanistan. A Witness production in collaboration with the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan ; written and produced by Ronit Avni. Call number: HQ1735.6 .R57 2002
The Drilling fields. A Catma Films production for Channel Four ; producer, Poonam Sharma ; director, Glenn Ellis ; writer/researcher, Kay Bishop. Call number: DT515.45.O33 D75 2008
Expelled. A Witness production; written, produced and directed by Michael Granne. Call number: HD8039.S86 E89 2001
Missing lives : disappearances and impunity in the North Caucasus. A co-production of: Memorial & WITNESS. Call number HV6433.C49 M566 2007
Crying sun : the impact of war in the mountains of Chechnya. A co-production of: Memorial & WITNESS. Call number DK511.C37 P63 2007
We Wish to Inform You That We Didn’t Know
If you haven’t already, stop by the Contemporary Arts Gallery at UConn for a brand new exhibition by the 2010 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Artist-in-Residence, Alfredo Jaar.
We wish to inform you that we didn’t know
On view March 24th – April 22, 2010
Hours and more information about the exhibit is available here.
March Madness!
There is a TON going on in March in terms of human rights events at UConn, so mark your calendars!
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Lecture and Booksigning by Sheryl WuDunn
March 3, 2010
7 PM
Jorgenson Auditorium
Join Sheryl WuDunn, best-selling co-author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. This thought-provoking and profoundly inspiring book highlights how renewed focus on the world’s women and girls can lead to the end of many of the world’s ills, and reveals the cruel reality faced by women who experience violence and oppression from around the world, including, but not limited to as sex trafficking and mass rape. As Tom Brokaw describes it, “Half the Sky is a passionate and persuasive plea to all of us to rise up and say ‘No more!’ to the 17th-century abuses to girls and women in the 21st-century world. This is a book that will pierce your heart and arouse your conscience. It is a powerful piece of journalism by two masters of the craft who are tireless in their pursuit of one of the most shameful conditions of our time.” Lecture followed by a book signing.
Women’s Empowerment: The National Agenda in Rwanda
Guest Speaker: Dr. Jeanne d’Arc Mujawamariya
Thursday, March 4
12:30 – 1:45 p.m.
Student Union Room 304
Dr. Jeanne d’Arc Mujawamariya is Rwanda’s Minister of Gender and Family Promotion. Prior to this appointment, she served as Rwanda’s Minister of Education; Minister of State in Charge of Higher Education; Minister of State in Charge of Primary and Secondary Education in the Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Scientific Research; Administration Secretary in Charge of Hydrocarbons, Department of Energy in the Infrastructure’s Ministry, MININFRA (formerly MINITRAPE), Rwanda; and was Professor of Physical Chemistry in the Faculty of Education, Department of Biology & Chemistry at the National University of Rwanda.
Human Trafficking in the Post-Armenian Genocide Middle East and the Dilemmas of Modern Humanitarianism: A Lecture by Keith David Watenpaugh
Monday, March 15, 2010
4pm – 5:30pm
Storrs Campus
Babbidge Library, Class of ’47 Room
Drawn from Prof. Watenpaugh’s forthcoming book, Bread from Stone: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism, this talk examines the League of Nations’ efforts on behalf of displaced Armenian women and children in the early post-World War I period.
Screening of Michael Moore’s Sicko (part of the Human Rights in the USA film series)
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
4pm – 5:30pm
Storrs Campus
Dodd Research Center, Konover Auditorium
Admission Fee: Free
The words “health care” and “comedy” aren’t usually found in the same sentence, but in Academy Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore’s movie ‘SiCKO,’ they go together hand in (rubber) glove. While Moore’s ‘SiCKO’ follows the trailblazing path of previous hit films, the Oscar-winning BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE and all-time box-office documentary champ FAHRENHEIT 9/11, it is also something very different for Michael Moore. ‘SiCKO’ is a straight-from-the-heart portrait of the crazy and sometimes cruel U.S. health care system, told from the vantage of everyday people faced with extraordinary and bizarre challenges in their quest for basic health coverage. More information available at: http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/events/hr_usa_film_series.htm
Art, Memory, and Human Rights: A Lecture by Marcelo Brodsky
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
4:30pm – 6pm
Storrs Campus
Dodd Center, Konover Auditorium
Esteemed Argentine photographer, visual artist, and human rights activist Marcelo Brodsky will present a public lecture on his recent work. His previous projects include Buena Memoria/Good Memory, a photographic tribute to family members and friends who “disappeared” during Argentina’s “Dirty War” (1976-1983); Nexo/Nexus, which draws together state terrorism and anti-Semitism in Argentina with the Holocaust; and Memory in Construction, a compilation of essays and artworks revolving around the problem of creating a Memory Museum for the victims of the “Dirty War.” Brodsky recently embarked on a new series called “Correspondencias.” More information (in English and Spanish) can be accessed on his website at http://www.marcelobrodsky.com
The Arts and Human Rights: Perspectives from Latin America
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
10am – 12pm
Storrs Campus
Student Union, Theater
This event features a roundtable discussion by two world famous Latin American artists, Alfredo Jaar from Chile and Marcelo Brodsky from Argentina.
Given that March 24 is the anniversary of the 1976 coup in Argentina that started the so-called “Dirty War,” Jaar and Brodsky will focus their comments on art and human rights around the topic of creating memorials to the victims of state terrorism. Jaar recently finished a commissioned piece for the brand new Museum of Memory in Santiago, Chile. This museum commemorates the thousands of lives lost to the brutality of the Pinochet dictatorship. Brodsky has been an active participant in the debates surrounding the transformation of the clandestine detention center at the Naval School of Mechanics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, operational during the “Dirty War,” into a similar memory museum. He has also edited a book on this subject.
And, don’t miss the opening of Alfredo Jaar’s new exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Gallery, and opening lecture on March 24, 2010:
Public Lecture: Alfredo Jaar
We wish to inform you that we didn’t know
March 24, 2010
4:00 PM Konover Auditorium / Dodd Center
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Exhibition: Alfredo Jaar
2010 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Artist-in-Residence
We wish to inform you that we didn’t know
On view March 24th – April 22, 2010
Reception March 24th at the Contemporary Art Galleries, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Human Rights Initiative Funding for 2010-2011
The Human Rights Initiative at the University of Connecticut is seeking proposals for human rights events for the 2010-2011 academic year.
In the past, the Human Rights Initiative has funded speakers, films, workshops, art exhibits and theatrical productions. Applications will be accepted from university departments, faculty, student groups, institutes and cultural centers from all UConn campuses. The Human Rights Initiative is supported by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs.
Criteria For Funding Funding Available: Funds for UConn Human Rights Initiative: From Ideas to Action events will normally be limited to a maximum of $2,500.
Under exceptional circumstances, the committee may approve a higher amount depending upon the significance of the speaker or event.
Types of Events Eligible for Support: Funding is available to pay for speaker’s honoraria, speaker travel and meals, for group performances, round table discussions, programs, or promotional materials.
Who May Apply: Funding will be available to representatives of university departments, schools, colleges, student groups, institutes, and cultural centers.
Criteria For Selection: A faculty and student review committee will consider the following criteria when selecting what organizations will receive funding:
- Clear focus on human rights
- Creates, fosters and/or expands an interest in human rights
- Contributes to the UConn Human Rights: From Ideas to Action as a whole, does not significantly duplicate another event, adds to a wide range of types of events
- Quality of speaker or event
- Interdisciplinary appeal
- Appeal to students, faculty, and general public
- Practical, feasible, well-planned event
- Reasonable cost and proportional to the impact of event
The criteria and application for funding are both available electronically.
Application Deadline is March 31, 2010
Please contact Rachel Jackson at 860-486-5393 or via email at rachel.jackson@uconn.edu, if you have questions.
New Research Guides Available!
In addition to the Human Rights Research Guide, there are several new research guides available on the UConn Libraries website:
- Introduction to Human Rights Archival Collections Guide
- Introduction to the Alternative Press Collection at the Dodd Research Center
- LGBTQ Studies (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Studies) Guide
- Guide to e-Reference Books in the Social Sciences (including human rights)
- Guide to Social Science Statistics
For a complete listing of research guides, go to http://classguides.lib.uconn.edu/